Larvae host on various legumes. South Texas Guy had this comment on his larval posting "One of many that appeared all at once on the immature fruit-spike of a fan palm, consuming it down to nothing in a period of perhaps three days and then disappearing."

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Butler, A.G. 1877. Notes on the Lepidopterous genera Carama and Trichetra, with descriptions of new species. Cistula entomologica 2: 203

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